environmental acts and treaties - cat and victoria

Delaney Clause of Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act

Sep 6, 1958

It requires the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban food additives which are found to cause or induce cancer in humans or animals as indicated by testing. Pesticide use was removed from the act later on in 1996.

Clean Air Act

Dec 17, 1963

The Clean Air Act is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national scale. This Act is a law that regulates air emissions from stationary and mobile sources, by establishing National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

Clean Water Act

Oct 18, 1972

It established the basic structure for regulating pollutant discharges into the waters of the United States. It gave EPA the authority to implement pollution control programs such as getting wastewater standards for industry. It's objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nations waters.

Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species

Sep 13, 1973

It is a multilateral international treaty designed to protect endangered plants and animals.The treaty ensures that international trade in wild plants and animals is legal, traceable and biologically sustainable.

Endangered Species Act

Dec 28, 1973

It's the primary law in the United States for protecting imperiled species. It also provides a framework to conserve and protect endangered and threatened species and their habitats both domestically and abroad.

Safe Drinking Water Act

Dec 16, 1974

The federal law that standards public drinking water supplies throughout the nation. It grants the EPA permission to set maximum containment level (MCL) standards for drinking water quality to public safety. It's the principal federal law in the United States intended to ensure safe drinking water for the public.

Resource Conservation and Recovery Act

Oct 21, 1976

It gives EPA the authority to control hazardous waste from "cradle to grave". This includes the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste. RCRA also set forth a framework for the management of non-hazardous solid waste

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, Liability Act (also known as the superfund)

Dec 11, 1980

The superfund allows the president to respond to the release of hazardous substances into the environment. It allows "superfund" to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites, accidents, spills, and other emergency releases of pollutants into the environment.

Montreal Protocol

Sep 16, 1987

It's a global agreement to protect the stratospheric ozone layer by phasing out the production and consumption of ozone depleting substances such as CFC's. It was designed to reduce the concentration of ozone depleting substances in the atmosphere to protect Earth's ozone layer.

Kyoto Protocol

Dec 11, 1997

The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked to the United Nations Framework Convention, which sets to target carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases to be reduced. The treaty targets 37 industrialized countries in order to lower their greenhouse gas emissions.